UPS MD-11F Crash - Louisville, USA
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Reports on the news and social media saying that a UPS McDonnell Douglas MD-11F has crashed after take off in Louisville. The aircraft was heading to Honolulu.
Looks like there is a large fire at the crash site. One video I saw it looks like they were in trouble while still on the runway with a fire on the left wing/engine.
https://news.sky.com/story/cargo-plane-crashes-at-...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c201kgq59qgt
Looks like there is a large fire at the crash site. One video I saw it looks like they were in trouble while still on the runway with a fire on the left wing/engine.
https://news.sky.com/story/cargo-plane-crashes-at-...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c201kgq59qgt
Edited by airbusA346 on Tuesday 4th November 23:33
There's a video on X showing the aircraft taking off: https://x.com/BNONews/status/1985845907191889930?t....
hidetheelephants said:
A petroleum recycling business under the flightpath seems like a poor zoning decision.
To be fair, anything other than an empty field is a bad idea if someone is going to land a plane on top of it.Plus going from the size of it there will have been far more fuel on the aircraft than in the little tanks the recycling place had.
Austin Prefect said:
There are suggestions online that no1 engine literally fell off, starting a fire in the wing. The hot gases from that could be enough to interfere with the no2 engine.
There are photos (unconfirmed officially I assume) of pretty much an entire engine left on the damned runway 
Awful
Sounds not entirely dissimiilar to American 191...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Fl...
Incident aircraft was, apparently, subjected to two hours of repairs to its left engine and/or related components prior to departure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Fl...
Incident aircraft was, apparently, subjected to two hours of repairs to its left engine and/or related components prior to departure.
Edited by MitchT on Wednesday 5th November 08:23
Jeez.
Even if they had got a +ve rate they would have never made it back, that was on fire big time.
Nigh on 35 year old airframe.
Engine appears to have departed the wing post V1 and that was the end of that. Photos showing it on the ground.
Lots of video online - just pure luck that more have not been killed tbh as this was a well populated area it came down in.
AA191.... <shudders>
Even if they had got a +ve rate they would have never made it back, that was on fire big time.
Nigh on 35 year old airframe.
Engine appears to have departed the wing post V1 and that was the end of that. Photos showing it on the ground.
Lots of video online - just pure luck that more have not been killed tbh as this was a well populated area it came down in.
AA191.... <shudders>
It looks like the port engine has ripped right off, maybe taking the pylon with it, and rupturing the wing tank, at or just after V1.
That horrific truck dash cam footage showing it rolling into the ground at 90 deg bank looks like the port wing from engine outward had already gone and why it rolled left into the ground.
That horrific truck dash cam footage showing it rolling into the ground at 90 deg bank looks like the port wing from engine outward had already gone and why it rolled left into the ground.
aeropilot said:
It looks like the port engine has ripped right off, maybe taking the pylon with it, and rupturing the wing tank, at or just after V1.
That horrific truck dash cam footage showing it rolling into the ground at 90 deg bank looks like the port wing from engine outward had already gone and why it rolled left into the ground.
I think the port wing was gone from the initial impact That horrific truck dash cam footage showing it rolling into the ground at 90 deg bank looks like the port wing from engine outward had already gone and why it rolled left into the ground.
BrettMRC said:
aeropilot said:
It looks like the port engine has ripped right off, maybe taking the pylon with it, and rupturing the wing tank, at or just after V1.
That horrific truck dash cam footage showing it rolling into the ground at 90 deg bank looks like the port wing from engine outward had already gone and why it rolled left into the ground.
I think the port wing was gone from the initial impact That horrific truck dash cam footage showing it rolling into the ground at 90 deg bank looks like the port wing from engine outward had already gone and why it rolled left into the ground.
gotoPzero said:
BrettMRC said:
aeropilot said:
It looks like the port engine has ripped right off, maybe taking the pylon with it, and rupturing the wing tank, at or just after V1.
That horrific truck dash cam footage showing it rolling into the ground at 90 deg bank looks like the port wing from engine outward had already gone and why it rolled left into the ground.
I think the port wing was gone from the initial impact That horrific truck dash cam footage showing it rolling into the ground at 90 deg bank looks like the port wing from engine outward had already gone and why it rolled left into the ground.
Grim......
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